Trans Siberian Orchestra - GREAT concert

[MetalManCPA]

I saw the Dec 27th show at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston.

I'm not sure how, but when I went online to order tickets when they were 1st available with the 1-hour early fan club email, I ended up getting floor seats, section A, row 1, seats 1-4. I have never sat front row nearly center at a concert with 10,000+ people.

Being that close was amazing. Constant eye contact with the artists, and I had no idea I was at a concert unless I turned around and saw the crowd. It felt like I was part of the concert being in the front row. We waited afterwards for autographs, and most of the band members recognized us and made comments like "great seats you had" and "saw you rocking out tonight, cool".

It was a 2 and 3/4 hour show. Great music.

 

[Man In Black]

I saw them on the 26, for the second year in a row.
I wasn't as close as you were, but I was fairly close. Anyway, they're amazing live. Completely over the top, and surprisingly heavy. Did they play Carmina Burana?

 

[Kenneth R.]

great band, but.....

They were MUCH better 3 or 4 years ago, when they focused more on music than laser-light displays. To take it another step, they were much better as Savatage before the TSO sideproject dominated them. Even now, TSO itself is threatening to stagnate into repetitiveness.

all in all, they're great people, good musicians, but i wish they would get back to the music and forget about the business for a while.

 

[JoeVice]

i took a girl out on a first date to see that...damn, i'm smooth...anyway, i thought that it was fairly boring. i'm not really a fan of their music.

 

[Tubbs]

Trans-Siberian Orchestra Pwns all N00bs, period. I just haven't the oppurtunity to see them live.

 

[Sadpoet]

great band, but.....

They were MUCH better 3 or 4 years ago, when they focused more on music than laser-light displays. To take it another step, they were much better as Savatage before the TSO sideproject dominated them. Even now, TSO itself is threatening to stagnate into repetitiveness.

all in all, they're great people, good musicians, but i wish they would get back to the music and forget about the business for a while.

I never realized TSO used to be Savatage!!! What the fuck? Is this really true?

 

[Zivilyn]

I never realized TSO used to be Savatage!!! What the fuck? Is this really true?

HOLY SHIT YEAH. Kind of when I first heard that too.

 

[Sanzen]

wow. I had no clue.

 

[Kenneth R.]

Same band, almost completely. If they had Oliva or Zak singing, it'd basically be Savatage + a string section.

in fact, the big hit "Sarajevo 12/24" on the Christmas Eve & Other Stories album, is in fact originally from Savatage - Dead Winter Dead, and came out years before it was a big hit. IMO, DWD is a better album even.

 

[Deadlift]

Great band, thanx for the tip

 

[Sadpoet]

I like Savatage. I have their album Gutter Ballet. Great shit.

 

[Kenneth R.]

best Savatage imo:

Gutter Ballet
Edge of Thorns
Handful of Rain
Poets & Madmen
Dead Winter Dead
Wake of Magellan
Hall of the Mountain King

which is actually most of their discography...

 

[Zivilyn]

Wake of Magellan is cool, but a little cheese, especially the vocals make me wanna gag sometimes, like in Paragons of Innocence

"GOTTALETITGOTTALETITGOTTALETITGOTTALETITGOTTALETITx3732....."
"NO ONE LEEEEEVES, NO ONE LEEEEEVES, NO ONE LEEEEEEEEVES.... Ah lyve!?"

sometimes I'm just like SHUT THE FUCK UP

 

[Kenneth R.]

it's all in good 80s metal spirit!

 

[Sanzen]

cock rock

 

[FRUGiHOYi]

awesome duuuude

 

[Lethe78]

I love Savatage; especially Streets. In fact, I believe that they are a highly under rated band.

Anyway, I thought about going and declined. Now I wish I had gone.

 

[Kenneth R.]

They were amazing 4 years ago. Now it's kind of a spectacle- you see it once, and then it loses its flair.

 

[pentagram_man63]

Can anyone tell me why all their stuff is about Christmas? I'm starting to get into them now...

 

[Kenneth R.]

TSO's first cd was a Christmas concept, and it was REALLY successful, so as businessmen, they did it twice more. They also did a Beethoven themed album, which I also recommend. All this is spurred from a popular song they stole from themselves, off Savatage - Dead Winter Dead.